1 kyuu, pretty well!I had a lot of fun taking this test, except for the reading (could they had picked anything denser to read???)

Vocab: Easy! I only had to guess 3 questionsListening: The question with the kids and the triangles and circles messed me up a little, but otherwise easy, and also quite amusing. (old JLPT is going out with a bang and fanservice)Reading: HARDGrammar: Easy again. A lot of unusual grammar stuff mentioned in kanzen master grammar was on it, but I think I did pretty well.

Assuming I score my usual 80-90 in listening, and I did as well as I think I did for vocab (75-80), I'm guessing that I've passed the test. I know I scored at least a 70 for the reading& grammar, even though I was struggling through a lot of the reading questions.

mbridge wrote:I had a lot of fun taking this test, except for the reading (could they had picked anything denser to read???)

I was less concerned with the difficulty and more annoyed by the sociopolitical agenda. Individualism versus collectivism, consumption and capitalism, blah, blah, blah. Past tests have had more varied and more interesting reading than this year.

mbridge wrote:Listening: The question with the kids and the triangles and circles messed me up a little

The way I understood it is the child watering the plants is at the top of the triangle, with the child carrying buckets of water and the child watching were helping (the latter by staying out of the way) and get placed at the bottom of the triangle. The child playing with the faucets (ADHD?) had nothing to do with the other children and got her own little circle.

I zoned out on the voodoo dolls question. I think I got about as far as the one with stumpy legs before I realized I just didn't care.

Oh boy, I just finished checking my answers to the ones on the net (at least, those I think I remember....) and the results are worse than I feared....Totally messed it up again and now I'm going to drown my sorrow with coffee.....

If anyone wants a link to the answers, feel free to PM me....

EDIT: Oh, I think answers for level 4 are not online yet...as soon as I spot them, I'll edit again....

I finally passed 1kyuu, a fairly narrow margin 300/400 precisely. But a pass is a pass I guess. I only scraped by in the reading/grammar, I think the choubun questions probably rained on my parade a little there. I really wish they would break up the reading and grammar sections so that I had a fairer idea of how I scored.